We used to import the lighting, they lost control of pricing......pricing went down soo fast it became a non profit part.....and they would sell to anyone with a PayPal account. They also produced as many 'flood' pods known as work lights as the did spot beam which is what's desired. As a result, most of the lighting contains too many flood pods vs spot pods now a days. A 42 fits between the factory rack rails with ease...

 

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So, havnt done much with the disco in the last couple of weeks.
Been more planning and messing around with that hitch receiver cargo rack. I am tryin to get that finished up. I need to post some progress pics of that soon.
Anyways, my steering damper is shot and will need to replace it at some point. I know I would like to go ahead and move it up front, but if I am going through the trouble of relocating, should I stick with the stem mount like the D1s have, or make by brackets/mounts to use an Eye to Eye damper like the D2s have?
Advantages and disadvantages.....let's hear them.

 

There's no practical difference. The main issue with stems is they are limited to rubber or urethane bushings, whereas an eye can use a spherical bearing (or Messerschmitt joint, sometimes called "heim" after the company that copied them). In theory, the bearing allows a higher angle of misalignment while keeping lateral forces to a minimum. The steering rod does not see those kinds of angles, ever.

However, the steering damper is virtually the same as a shock absorber. It uses a valve that is ported evenly between compression and rebound (left and right), and a different shim stack than what you'd use on a wheel, but otherwise it is the same. I don't think you'll find as many off-the-shelf rebuildable shocks with stems. Eyes are a lot more popular.

It could be a good idea to use the same body you use for shocks, and load it with a steering damper valve. Then you have a spare shock body. If you dented or broke a shock, you could swap valves, refill it with ATF, and charge it with your air compressor.

This is assuming you're using a relocated steering damper. Good shocks are monotube. Monotube shocks and steering dampers have much better performance than twin tube. If your steering damper is on the tie-rod, a monotube is too vulnerable to damage. Twin tubes can take dents better, but instead of arguing that a dented twin tube works so good, I would say that the damper should be relocated to the drag link.

 

I've yet to see any Rover steering damper that has spherical ends.
Go eye to eye if you have a larger lift or lots of travel in the front suspension.

 

Thanks guys.
Yeah, the plan is that I will eventually work towards the lift. I was looking around for steering dampers and came across a Terrafirma one for a D2 that is adjustable valving. Seemed pretty nice to have that feature, but the mounts obviously wouldn't work for my application.

 

OMFG! I just changed the ignition wires on my D2 and what a pain in the *** it was! I did not realize how accessible the wires are on the D1 - you are lucky. Swap and go.

 

Dammit, what happened to my picture from previous post.....

 

Yeah, it's pretty painless. My was more annoying than most just because I went with the larger plug wires that didn't fit the factory wire looms.....therefore the zip ties .

 

Most of your pictures are not showing up on here man. Not sure why but all we can see is non clickable links. When making a post, try using the "insert Image" feature to upload pictures directly from your computer/phone. Thats what I do on my build thread and all my pictures show up as they should.

Always good to review your posts after you have submitted them for errors like this.

In any case nice looking D1. Keep up the good work.